Abstract: Disclosed are a process for preparing single wall carbon nanotubes with surfactant-coated surface which comprises coating a surface of the carbon nanotubes with a surfactant by adding water to a mixture of the carbon nanotubes and the surfactant, ultrasonically treating the mixture, treating the ultrasonically treated mixture with a initiator, and applying a surfactant to the surface of the resultant carbon nanotubes and, in addition, the carbon nanotubes with surfactant-coated surface prepared by the above process. The formed carbon nanotubes of the present invention can maintain a stable dispersion condition regardless of change of an external environment and be stably dispersed in water even when putting the carbon nanotubes into the water after completely drying the same, so that the carbon nanotubes can be widely used in developing and manufacturing various products.